Hid Brands?
 

I am looking to buy a hid conversion kit. I have seen people say on the forum that you can get them cheap on ebay. To be honest they look kinda hokey on ebay and i dont know wether or not they are any good or not. I just want to know if their are any brands that anybody would recomend for my 08 civic dx-g. Or even some websites that also offer hid kits/ headlights (not retro fit preferably) for cheap, but still good quality(if possible). I live in canada if that makes any difference

Thanks

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spam

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Thanks for your post i will definately look into it.

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Check out these guys. I just ordered a set from them yesterday. I hear their wait times are up to half a month, but you get the lowest price in the world on HID's, and htey come with a lifetime warrenty- thats music to my ears.

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oem is probably the most reliable. All the cheap chinese stuff is the same. So i would just go with the cheapest price. I ordered 55watt ballast hid kit from china off ebay. It came in 3days. It was the same seller gearbox used.

If you don't need a 55watt ballasts, you can buy the 35watt ballasts for $65 on ebay. The one i bought for my gf's rsx retro was $65 off a ebay seller based in southern california. I believe there were xentecs.

its kinda funny, china ships so much stuff to us, there's probably ships coming to california on a daily basis. I can get things shipped from china to california in 3days when it takes me 5-6days to get stuff from new york.

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here's the ebay seller i used for my gf rsx. Its 1yr warranty for $65.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HID-X...1%7C240%3A1318


you can also buy them from rsx ct at retro solutions
for $160 but he offers life time warranty

http://www.retrosolutionsllc.com/ser...its/Categories

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Whoops, I guess I was tired and forgot to provide the link.

Here it is:
http://www.ddmtuning.com/hidkihidbuhi.html

I picked up the DDSM digital slimline kit

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Thanks alot guys apreciate the input. Triz are the ones you recomended easy to install (plug and play)?

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Yes, assuming you have the wire harness that is sold separately on their site for like 25 bucks or have your own already. Total with the kit and harness it was just less then 110 shipped with lifetime warranty. Cant go wrong with that.

Dont buy this kit if you need them right away. They have a back log because they are so popular because of their specs and price point, expect to wait 2 weeks for them to ship out. I've been reading the posts on the bimmer forums that they sponsor. They get several shipments a day and consequently stock out numerous times per day. They ship orders in the order received so your not stuck waiting while they fill several 100 kit orders by their regular customers. (so if you need them ASAP then look elsewhere)

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Check out this seller on ebay. Sweet set up.

http://myworld.ebay.com/kassabian9898

i still use the ballasts a year and a half later and I've never had a single issue with them. Guy ships from China and will be at your door in a few days. Gets here faster then stuff from Cali.

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(Question for Triz)This might sound dumb but why are the ballast only 35w or 55w when my low beam is already 55w and my high beam is 65w? Maybe if i knew what a ballast did i would know, can anyone explain what a ballast does exactly?

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hid bulbs normally run at only 35w, and are brighter than halogen. the ballast is a DC-AC converter, without it the bulb would not be able to fire. there are 50-55w aftermarket ballasts also available that make the hid bulb even brighter.

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So when i do buy these do i need to get a retrofit to have a clean crisp cut of line. Or will my stock headlight bodies be suficient enough?

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stock headlight was not meant for hid and will have a very fuzzy cutoff with alot of glare above.

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....I dont think you mentioned which headlights your using. If your just throwing an HID kit in your stock housing then you wont have a cut off at all- well, maybe somewhat but nothing that even closely resembles a "clean, crisp cutoff." You will need a set of HID projectors and mount them up inside of your headlights for that.

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Triz when you get your kit from DDM can you let me know what you think of the slimlines. And did you order the wire harness too? If you could take some picks of your install and a quick description of each step that would be great!! What bulb type and bulb color did you get?

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I have read on other forums that with the 8th generation civics you do not need the wire harness to hook up the HID kit. The stock one is suficient enough. Is this true?

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depends on the wire size of the stock harness. most halogen systems use 18 gauge wire. for hids you should be using around 14 gauge which is much thicker.

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will the instructions say what size wire i will need to use when i get them?

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well no, it prolly doesnt even include a harness. but you can make one for cheap, all you need is a relay, fuse, and some wires. use a 15 amp fuse and 14 gauge wiring.

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I was planning on doing this anyways just because nobody has heard of them and I might as well throw a decent review under my belt.

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is there any DIY i can find that will show this wirring being done in detail.

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heres my diagram for wiring new hids on 01-03 civic with H4 bulbs.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...iagram01gb.jpg

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sweet thanks will that be similar for my 08 civic coupe

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almost. you will need to figure out where to tap the harness trigger wire to on the stock lo beam connector plug. actually its really easy since the 08 civic uses separate bulbs for lo and hi beam. so on the lo beam connector, theres only gonna be two wires, positive and negative. you want the positive to connect the trigger wire to. more than likely, the black wire will be the negative. if you choose the wrong one and it doesnt work, just switch to the other wire. wiring them this way will allow the lo beam to remain on when the hi beam is used.

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cool tanks

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if i get this harness will this make things easy (plug and play)?

http://www.ddmtuning.com/products/HI...ss-133-94.html

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if i get this harness will this make things easy (plug and play)?

http://www.ddmtuning.com/products/HI...ss-133-94.html

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i have been reading on another forum that when you order from ddm their bulbs are wrong. for instance their 8000k is really like 6000k. triz let me know if this is true or not because i want 6000k but if this is true i will order 8000k

thanks

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I got my kit in a week or two ago, but havent installed it yet because I have to do the retro first. I did hook it up to see how it looked. The mine is 4300k color and it looks pretty good. I kinda wish I woulda picked up 5000k instead for just a little bit more blueish tinge, but its all good. 2000k difference is huge, your going to have super blue looking headlights, almost purpleish. Also the harness will make it easy.

The kit looks solid. No pics because they look EXACTLY how they look on the site. I got the small ballasts, they are legit- the igniters are a little bigger then necessary in relation to the size of the ballasts, but they are sealed very well and all are very solid. The wire harness is also done very well as well. Recommended.

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ok thanks what year honda do you have? are you going to do a DIY of some sorts?

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01 em2. Yeah I'll probably snap pics and show ppl how I done it. ;-)

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o dang i got a 08 civic R18, but it should be pretty similar except for were to mount the ballast. When you do get around to it can you post the link to the thread in here please

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The link to what ...??

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To your DIY or are you just going to post the pics in this thread?

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Oh, I'll post a link when its done. Wont be any time soon tho- I got my CPA test review material arriving tomorrow, and my first review class on saturday, so I gotta plunge my head into the books and keep it there for a while.

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I feel ya i am in my first year of university and man what a difference. Its freaking tuff, good luck!

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I got 5 years of college under my belt. The first two years are the easiest. the last 2 are the hardest.

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that is reasuring thanks lol

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Yeah, thats how it goes. You think its super hard... but when you look back on it you realize its super easy. Then when you get near the end you still think its super hard but you realize that it actually is super hard. I would try explaining what I was learning to my parents, friends, or boss and they would be really interested when I began explaining because they could comprehend what I was saying, but then at the end they would have a blank expression and would just give up trying to understand the explanation. Then I'd get teased for being a genius... you'll be there one day- the day ppl without college educations realize you have a thought process thats way beyond theirs.... kudos if you get your boss to feel pawnd.

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thanks for the advice lol to the last coment

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just ordered my HID today cant wait to get them. How long did you say it took to get yours? I have heard of some problems with DDM so i hope that i dont have any issues.

Look foward to seeing your DIY or pictures!

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Yeah, studying every minute of free time for this CPA thing, or just being dead tired. I got my bumper and all the stuff for the HID retro at my buddies place but havent had any time to do it. Working madd hours doesnt help either. I got some light shifts coming up these next few days so maybe I'll catch up and have some time to wrok on this project

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sounds good look foward to it. Man retro is expensive is it not, i am just going to go with my stock 08 housing, seems to do the job for now. I think i am just going to buy new headlights with halos instead of the retro. Its cheaper is it not correct me if i am wrong

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Its cheaper, but you wont be able to run HID's properly if you dont retro in HID projectors... all aftermarket headlights i know of that have projectors are for regular halogen lights. Its up to you tho, HID's arent for everybody.

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how much does a retro cost? Cause i have already bought the HID's

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Up to a thousand bucks if you pay someone else to do it. Or just the price of materials if you do it yourself. All there is to a retro is finding a way to put the HID projectors in the headlights you want to run, plugging the HID kit into them, and the rest is all wiring.

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aww screw it i aint paying 1000 bucks, and i aint doing it myself

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Once you put HID bulbs into stock housing, or with halogen projectors you'll think differently. Look up pics of HID cutoffs... you'll soon see the difference of having HID projectors and putting them behind halogen projectors or in stock reflector based housings. Maybe someone on the forum will be able to do it for much cheaper for you.

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i have seen the cutoff but not worth the 1000 dollars